Now that I have made it through the busy part of my work year, it is time to figure out what I should be reading this summer. We are already planning to spend a week up in Vermont staying here with a friend. I am sure there will be plenty of time for reading while recovering from some vigorous hiking.

I am thinking fiction. For the past year, it's been mostly heavy non-fiction so a change of pace would be nice. I'm also considering modern fiction. I have rarely touched anything that is post 1950 besides an unfortunate episode of binging on Gresham and Clancy when I was 18. I'm going to let the list ferment for a while before I make my final selections so any suggestions are appreciated.

Powered by $50 in Amazon certificates and an active library card, onto the list:

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 2005 book that I have heard good things about
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - it's by a linguist so it must be interesting
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - trying to read one great Russian novel a year
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

While I have not been posting due to a heavy load at work, I have found a little bit of time to read in the past few months. As a reminder to myself, I have read

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart
The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
A History of New Testament Lexicography by John A. L. Lee
Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers by Geoffrey Horrocks
Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias
Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times by Martin Greschat